Agas is contained in a gas piston-cylinder assembly. the piston mass and crosssectional area are denoted as m and a, respectively. the only force acting on top of the piston is due to atmospheric pressure, patm. assume the piston moves smoothly in the cylinder and the local acceleration of gravity g is constant. - show that the pressure of the gas acting on the bottom of the piston remains constant as gas volume varies. - what would cause the gas volume to vary?

Follow these directions and answer the questions. 1. shine a pencil-thin beam of light on a mirror perpendicular to its surface. (if you don't have a laser light as suggested in the video, you can make a narrow beam from a flashlight by making a cone from black construction paper and taping it over the face of the flashlight.) how does the light reflect? how does the relationship of incident to reflected ray relate to the reflection of water waves moving perpendicular to a barrier? 2. shine a pencil-thin beam of light on a mirror standing on a sheet of paper on the table (or floor) so that you can mark the incident ray and reflected ray. (you can support the mirror from the back by taping it to a wooden block.) 3. mark a line on the paper representing the reflective surface. (the reflective surface of a mirror is usually the back edge.) 4. draw a dashed line perpendicular to the mirror surface at a point where the incident and reflected ray meet. this perpendicular is called a normal to the surface. 5. measure the angles between the rays and the normal. the angle of incidence is the angle formed by the incident ray and the normal to the surface. the angle formed by the reflected ray and normal is called the angle of reflection (r). what is the angle of incidence? what is the angle of reflection? 6. repeat for several different angles. (see report sheet for details.) what appears to be the relationship between the angle of incidence and angle of reflection? in science 1204, what was the relationship for these two angles made by the reflection of waves in a ripple tank? 7. roll a ball bearing so that it hits a fixed, hard surface (a metal plate) at several angles (including head-on). observe the way in which the ball bearing reflects. what generalization can you make about how a ball bearing reflects from a wall? have you proved that light can only behave like a wave?

Choose the most likely outcome of this scenario: jen decided to go bike riding without a helmet. while no one is around during her ride, she is thrown from her bike when her wheel goes into a pothole. she is not injured, but she is terrified to get back on her bike. what happens next? a. her physical health is affected even though she wasn't hurt. b. her mental and emotional health are affected because she is afraid to get back on her bike. c. her social health is affected because she is worried her friends saw the fall. d. her overall health is not affected at all by her fall.

30 points - when can a theory be modified if a new type of technology allows for new observations that raise new questions? a. immediately, while the questions about the theory are being asked b. after new hypotheses related to the theory are tested in experiments c. only after the new observations disprove all parts of the theory d. while scientists begin to think about how the theory could improve